Usha Sanyal

Usha Sanyal is an American scholar and historian whose PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.[1] Usha Sanyal is Adjunct Lecturer at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina۔[2]

Usha Sanyal
OccupationHistorian

Work

Sanyal has authored two books:

  • Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmed Raza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870-1920. 1st & 2nd editions. New York and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 3rd edition. Delhi:Yoda Press, 2010 (Urdu Translation in 2013)
  • Ahmed Raza Khan: In the Path of the Prophet. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 2005

Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in The Journal of Religion. He described it as "a well-researched and welcome addition to the literature on Islamic reform in colonial India".[3]

gollark: You *can* do things, but that DOES NOT IMPLY YOU SHOULD.
gollark: Fascinating. I'm not saying you're wrong in this specific case, merely that this is increasingly ominous.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways; in my experience it's mostly authority figures demanding that I "respect" them, and they generally mean that I should be subservient to them in some way.
gollark: To copy-paste what I wrote about this before:
gollark: I dislike the concept of "respect" in general, no.

References
  1. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sai/dissertations.html Doctoral Dissertations of Recent Alumini, Columbia University.
  2. https://oneworld-publications.com/ahmad-riza-khan-barelwi-hb.html
  3. Behl, Aditya (January 1999). "Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan and His Movement, 1870-1920. Usha Sanyal". The Journal of Religion. 79 (1): 178–179. doi:10.1086/490387.



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